Record-keeping: how to avoid making serious mistakes or leaving gaps
Tips on preventing errors and ensuring patient records are accurate and up to date
09 Sep 2024
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The value of home support for cancer patients: a study
The Community Oncology Project (COPE) was initiated to investigate home support...
30 Apr 1997
The rhythms of life: chronobiology and nursing
It is now well established that all human physiological processes exhibit...
23 Apr 1997
The menopause and hormone replacement therapy
Aims and intended learning outcomes
The aim of this article is...
23 Apr 1997
Managers’ attitudes towards mechanical aids
This article reports a study of the attitudes of NHS management and financial...
23 Apr 1997
A health clinic for people with learning disabilities
The needs of people with a learning disability are not always met due to...
16 Apr 1997
How informal carers cope with terminal cancer
Although caring is not necessarily a negative experience (Dawson 1991, Grant and...
16 Apr 1997
Nursing and public health: the future
The last two years have seen an increase indebate and discussion about the...
14 Apr 1997
How nurses perceive barriers to research implementation
This article follows up a previous article on community nurses’ perceived barriers...
09 Apr 1997
Adult immunisation
Aim and intended learning outcomesThe aim of this article is to review the role of...
09 Apr 1997
Implications for nursing of the NHS R&D funding policy
In this article, the author reviews the recommendations for NHS research and...
02 Apr 1997
School nurses’ skills in sexual health education
School nurses are often called on to teach sexual health without being given any...
26 Mar 1997
Central venous catheters: a review of the literature
Following an audit on the author’s unit, staff were concerned about catheter...
26 Mar 1997
Lifting injury: a study of the occupational health perspective
This article reports the results of a national questionnaire survey of 66...
19 Mar 1997
Chronic respiratory illness - a challenge for nurses
Respiratory disease is responsible for much acute and chronic ill health with...
19 Mar 1997
Assessing patient dependency and staff skill mix
An assessment tool was developed to measure patient dependency and staff skill mix...
12 Mar 1997
Student nurses’ perceptions of health promotion: a study
This article reports the findings of a comparative descriptive study of Project...
05 Mar 1997